Marshall Anderson wrote:

> PCBUILD
>
> System: FIC 2013..CPU AMD K62-380...64 mb PC-100...Fujitsu 4.2 gig...16x
> CD...generic sound...generic modem...cirrus logic 4 mb video and Win95OSR2.
>
> My friend was finally introduced to Quake 2 on my machine which ran it fine.
> I told him that his machine couldn't run Quake 2 adequately with the current
> video card, so we went out and bought the V770.  Brought the mobo up to date
> with the 4 in 1 drivers offered through the FIC website.  Installed the card
> and the drivers supplied by the manufacturer.
>
> Now everything seems to have slowed down dramatically.  Installing software
> takes longer, the mouse jumps across the screen as you move it.  The windows
> when opened, take a lot longer to display the icons.  This may not have
> anything to do with it but downloading off the internet is now below 1K bps.
> And randomly little colored dotted lines appear and flicker on the screen.
>
> In the display properties under Diamond 3D where it shows the frame rate and
> all the settings, the boxes are all checked and the frame rate in the window
> is ~5 fps.  And when trying to run Quake 2 in OpenGL, it is very choppy and
> unplayable.
>
> Does this sound like it is attributed to the video card?  Is there a really
> good site that tells all about the diamond V770, settings, and info?  Should
> I swap the video cards again and  just make him play DOOM?

I have bad experience with Diamond driver since Diamond and S3 merged. Seems
like Diamond still make good hardware but has less time to debug their drivers.
Who knows what happened over there? What has S3 done to Diamond?

Anyway, you can remove the Diamond inControll tool from Add/Remove program,
download TNT2 driver from nVidia (version 2.08), use driver update to update the
V770 driver. In my exp, nVidia driver is 100 times better than any card
manufacture driver, don't understand why.

Jun Qian

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